Wright v. Castles’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 108 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 136 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably Brown v. Haley (1987), 7 Va. App. 614 - Com., Dept. of Social Services v. Johnson (1989)
9 federal appellate · 108 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Chaves v. Johnson · Bates v. Devers · Allen Realty Corp. v. Holbert · Worrie v. Boze · Lee v. Southland Corp.
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 136 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'(1) identity of the remedies sought; (2) identity of the cause of action; (3) identity of the parties; and (4) identity of the quality of the persons for or against whom the claim is made.'”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“One of the principal tests in determining whether a demand is single and entire, or whether it is several, so as to give rise to more than one cause of action, is the identity of facts necessary to maintain the action. If the same evidence will support both actions, there is but one cause of action.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Collateral estoppel is the preclusive effect impacting in a subsequent action based upon a collateral and different cause of action. In the subsequent action, the parties to the first action and their privies are precluded from litigating any issue of fact actually litigated and essential to a valid and final personal judgment in the first action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Martone v. Martone
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.